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Aaaand it wont play due to a missing driver or some driver thing..

Daehawk wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:31 pm Aaaand it wont play due to a missing driver or some driver thing..

Anytime you run a game that old, you're going to have to expect a bit of troubleshooting before it will play.

It was missing some driver plus it has some archaic cd copy protection scheme.

Carpet_pissr wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:42 pm I've been FAR down that research rabbit hole, and for a while strongly considered building an arcade cab myself - until the Legends cabs (both arcade AND now pinball!) came out and it basically shot a hole in my DIY project simply due to cost comparisons. Add to that the materials price hike in the pandemic, and there's just no justifying it (unless you just want to do the building).

I HIGHLY recommend you look at the Legends stuff, even though many say you need to replace the exciters on the pinball table with better ones on day one.

Whelp, after spending most of today doing research, I'm going to go the Legends route instead of the Arcade 1Up. Ordered the Legends Arcade cab today, and will likely be picking up the Legends Pinball as well.

Now to find some room in the basement...

Daehawk wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:36 pm It was missing some driver plus it has some archaic cd copy protection scheme.

Keep in mind, it is a twelve year old game. Realistically, games that old typically do require some finessing.

Did you try following the PC Gaming Wiki instructions? (i.e. download the 1.01 patch, update to the x64 version of the TAGES DRM, and then run the game in compatibilty mode for Windows XP SP3):

pcgamingwiki.com wrote:Set up the Amazon Digital Download
The best way to currently get the game digitally is via Amazon Digital Download. After buying and downloading the game, follow these steps:

1. Install the downloaded game.
2. Update TAGES (x64 version for most).
3. Run the game in compatibilty mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3.
4. When first launching the game, enter the DRM key that you got. Now you're good to go.

Dunno if that'll work for the original DVD version, but it's probably worth a shot.

Didn't read the wiki. Deleted the tages stuff and did use the patch. So a reinstall will have me trying harder. And it took forever to install. And I dont have $20 for the Amazon version.

Sometimes, asking the publisher (if they are still around) can yield dividends. I had an old copy of Brothers in Arms, and its copy protection really messed up my system. I managed to uninstall it and asked Ubi if they can give me a Steam key/Ubi key instead, and they did.

Would be nice if they gave me the Amazon version.

But thanks AB! That WIKI info you posted worked. Its was the TAGEs driver that was failing due to age. Im guessing its some obscure DRM,. I used that patch then used the x64 TAGEs exe and the game is running. WOOT!.

Man my memory is lax. I loved both these games so much. They were different and ahead of their times. But playing now it seems so clumsy and floaty almost. Ill get used to it Im sure. Going to try to do a full play through of it. Im skipping Butcher Bay this time as Ive played it multiple times but think I only played Dark Athena twice...and I dont remember it.

I’ve now tried three times to get into Greedfall. The world looks so interesting, but the game ends up simply being a janky, watered-down version of Dragon’s Age Inquisition. It’s filled with boring fetch quests and dull combat, but is propped up slightly by a unique setting.

Shame, as it seems like there’s some potential in that world.

Maybe its because Im an old fart now but Athena is kickin my butt. I die constantly and I have it on the easiest setting. Im sure the other 2 play throughs many years ago were on normal lol.

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:36 pm I’ve now tried three times to get into Greedfall. The world looks so interesting, but the game ends up simply being a janky, watered-down version of Dragon’s Age Inquisition. It’s filled with boring fetch quests and dull combat, but is propped up slightly by a unique setting.

Shame, as it seems like there’s some potential in that world.

I loved Greedfall. When the world fully opens up to the other cities you can visit, it becomes a much better game and the jank almost disappears.

Rumpy wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:32 pm

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:36 pm I’ve now tried three times to get into Greedfall. The world looks so interesting, but the game ends up simply being a janky, watered-down version of Dragon’s Age Inquisition. It’s filled with boring fetch quests and dull combat, but is propped up slightly by a unique setting.

Shame, as it seems like there’s some potential in that world.

I loved Greedfall. When the world fully opens up to the other cities you can visit, it becomes a much better game and the jank almost disappears.

Interesting. I’ve hit the wall around 5 hours each time because it’s just so dull and janky and the back and forth fetch quests are so dull.

Maybe I’ll try and stick with it.

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:22 pm

Rumpy wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:32 pm

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:36 pm I’ve now tried three times to get into Greedfall. The world looks so interesting, but the game ends up simply being a janky, watered-down version of Dragon’s Age Inquisition. It’s filled with boring fetch quests and dull combat, but is propped up slightly by a unique setting.

Shame, as it seems like there’s some potential in that world.

I loved Greedfall. When the world fully opens up to the other cities you can visit, it becomes a much better game and the jank almost disappears.

Interesting. I’ve hit the wall around 5 hours each time because it’s just so dull and janky and the back and forth fetch quests are so dull.

Maybe I’ll try and stick with it.

Yeah, the fetch quests were annoying, and there are more of them, between cities even, but when the game opens up, the storyline becomes more interesting.

Doing okay so far in Titan Quest Act V: Ragnarok. Only died once or twice, basically pulled too much aggro and got mobbed. The trick is to pick them off one at a time, and never get surrounded, where if you got frozen or petrified you die. Having a bunch of rings and whatnot that minimizes freeze duration and such helps a lot.

Right now, I got so much regen (10+ hp per second) I barely need the potions I carry. As I need a LOT of lupine claw (if you played Ragnarok, you know why) I think I'll go back to older levels to farm those, plus take on some bosses with my L44 warden (instead of my older L20 self) and see how that goes, to farm some relics.

EA Play is $5 and Xbox Game Pass is $10 and comes with EA Play. Seems thats the better deal with more games. Well unless you dont want to pay $5 more or dont like the MS games there.

Looking at my EA history my wife got me EA Play Nov 20. By mid Dec I had finished both Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda when I cancelled.

Hah, just breezed my way through both Telkines, Typhon, AND Hades. Didn't get much loot though. :-/ May have to do it again.

Given that I am now doing almost 1000 damage per strike... and 10+ HP regen per second... Doable.

I dont recall what I played in that game. Been a while.

My mind is dwelling on Baldurs Gate. So much so I bought the enhanced edition I was missing the other day for $4. Figured Id get to it one day...maybe. Still not sure. I finished all the BG games and all the Icewind Dale games but have never considered a replay really. They were so huge, so fun, and so detailed I feel like I remember them too well and now they are pretty old to try to go back to.

Ive played 70% of the newer games that are like them...the Pillars one, Tyranny, Original Sin and stuff......and didn't like them all that much. Couldn't get into them. Did the best with Pillars but didn't finish it either time I tried. New stuff either is missing old features I liked or they add new features I truly hate like camping or requiring rest. I rest in BG when Im hurt not because Ive moved around the damn map too much..yawn. Its a time waste feature in new stuff. Pass

But here I am thinking to install BG. Im worried Ill just dislike it because now its old, looks old, and stuff I loved then I cant take now. Afraid it will ruin my good memories of the fun I had with it originally.

Skinypupy wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:39 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:42 pm I've been FAR down that research rabbit hole, and for a while strongly considered building an arcade cab myself - until the Legends cabs (both arcade AND now pinball!) came out and it basically shot a hole in my DIY project simply due to cost comparisons. Add to that the materials price hike in the pandemic, and there's just no justifying it (unless you just want to do the building).

I HIGHLY recommend you look at the Legends stuff, even though many say you need to replace the exciters on the pinball table with better ones on day one.

Whelp, after spending most of today doing research, I'm going to go the Legends route instead of the Arcade 1Up. Ordered the Legends Arcade cab today, and will likely be picking up the Legends Pinball as well.

Now to find some room in the basement...

Ahhh, you bastard! So jealous.

You mentioned 300 games on the arcade cab? Nay, friend. MANY more than 300. Many many thousands. Just adding a Raspberry Pi will turn that sucker into amazing MAME + much more cab. Very simple to do as well.

Look up Coinops X or Retropie + Legends and you will get a ton of hits. there is also a very cool hologram generator for the top as a mod.

SW hologram pinball topper (scroll down for vids - note you don’t see the blades in meatspace like you do viewing on screen)
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shop ... am-topper-

Carpet_pissr wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:36 am Look up Coinops X

Way ahead of ya.

Picking up the arcade cab tomorrow, ordering the pinball on Friday. The toughest part will just be waiting until Christmas to play them.

Titan Quest... Just finished Act V: Ragnarok. Beat up most of the Asgardian gods, including Wodan (aka Odin), Freya, Baldr, and Tyr (?), only to find out...

Keeping my trend of playing games way after everyone else but buying everything new that looks interesting....playing Viktor Vran and Dawn of War of II which for some reason started working again. for a new game I am playing Into the Pit which is an FPS Heretic sort of thing except every journey into the pit your powers reset and you have to work your way down the pit and pick powers which means every pit adventure could be played a different way

Viktor Vran is pretty good so far and I think better than Van Helsing which I played quite a bit of though I have not tried out the different classes.

The guy that did those very funny "Skyrim IRL" videos apparently murdered his wife and her lover.

As NBC San Diego reports, police were called to an apartment in the city’s East Village last week, where they discovered the bodies of two people, Abulaban’s wife Ana (29) and her friend Rayburn Barron (28). It’s believed that Ana and Barron had been having an affair, and that the Abulabans had been “in the process of ending the marriage.”

Deputy District Attorney Taran Brast said that Ali had been “stalking” Ana since October 18, and that late last week he not only vandalized their apartment in a luxury complex, but “also installed an app on his daughter’s iPad that allowed him to monitor activity in the apartment.”

It’s alleged that last Thursday afternoon, after Ali had “heard his wife with another man,” he visited the apartment, found Barron there, and shot him three times in the head and neck, before also firing “one bullet into his wife’s forehead.” Video footage from a neighbouring apartment reportedly shows Ali leaving the building directly afterwards.

Not gonna blame him for that. He should have walked away and took everything but emotions and cheating are a warped bag. Funny how the title is 'wife and her friend' and not 'wife and her lover'

Daehawk wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 1:28 pm Not gonna blame him for that. He should have walked away and took everything but emotions and cheating are a warped bag. Funny how the title is 'wife and her friend' and not 'wife and her lover'

You're not gonna blame him for killing two people? Ooooooookay...

Look, I'm with you that cheating is truly horrible, but there's no circumstance where it justifies murder. None.

Daehawk wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 1:28 pm Not gonna blame him for that.

I think I understand what you are trying to say, but that's not coming off well.

I absolutely blame him. I understand that such things happen, or we wouldn't have the "crime of passion" label. But there is nothing that excuses blame. Period. Assuming he did it, he knew exactly what he was doing. And knew it was wrong. That would make him 100% to blame.

"Finished" Titan Quest on normal, including Atlantis, not sure if I really want to try epic, which is going to be MOTS.

TheMix wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 2:00 pm

Daehawk wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 1:28 pm Not gonna blame him for that.

I think I understand what you are trying to say, but that's not coming off well.

I absolutely blame him. I understand that such things happen, or we wouldn't have the "crime of passion" label. But there is nothing that excuses blame. Period. Assuming he did it, he knew exactly what he was doing. And knew it was wrong. That would make him 100% to blame.

Installing the app on his daughter's tablet makes it premeditated. I imagine that first degree is going to be on the table.

Oh so it wasn't spontaneous? Oeww thats bad territory there.

Isgrimnur wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:09 pm

TheMix wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 2:00 pm

Daehawk wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 1:28 pm Not gonna blame him for that.

I think I understand what you are trying to say, but that's not coming off well.

I absolutely blame him. I understand that such things happen, or we wouldn't have the "crime of passion" label. But there is nothing that excuses blame. Period. Assuming he did it, he knew exactly what he was doing. And knew it was wrong. That would make him 100% to blame.

Installing the app on his daughter's tablet makes it premeditated. I imagine that first degree is going to be on the table.

No, it does not. Without any additional evidence, you can't prove that he specifically intended to show up there with a gun when he saw that his soon-to-be-ex-wife was with her new boyfriend.

It’s alleged that last Thursday afternoon,

(1) after Ali had “heard his wife with another man,”
(2) he visited the apartment, found Barron there,
(3) and shot him three times in the head and neck, before also firing “one bullet into his wife’s forehead.”

That demonstrates to me that he intended to show up when there was a man there with her, and he was armed.

Obviously, I am not a lawyer and not involved in the case, but that's going to be a heavy lift, if those allegations bear out, that it's not premeditated.

There is understanding why someone would cross a line.

And then there is accepting that they were justified in doing so.

They are different things. I can absolutely understand why he would do that. I absolutely don't feel that he was right, justified, or anything but to blame for it.

Since I have Ubisoft+, I am entitled to play the Ultimate Edition of Riders Republic for free. I didn't really have much interest in a game where so many sports are associated with doing tricks; to me any sport that has style points isn't really a sport (debate that as you will ). Still, I'm willing to give it a try. I played for a few minutes and went through two mountain bike races, where being first is the most important thing and I won both races, and at Standard Difficulty to boot, no Easy stuff for me . Turns out playing racing games for umpteen years using a controller has given me a pretty good command of the basics and even my sixty-eight year old reactions can do OK as well. I'll post more impressions but unless other folks are playing I'm not going to start a special thread for the game.

Pulled from a huge DC page of info I linked here.

https://octopusoverlords.com/forum/view ... =5&t=98649

Looks like APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth are making a comeback. Didn't know this. I beta'd both. Didn't think much of them but free is free right...hmm.

https://massivelyop.com/2021/10/28/fall ... c-is-live/
https://www.gamersfirst.com/download

Anyone playing Necromunda Hired Gun? Been several patches since launch so jumped in again. Fairly entertaining after I learned you should do several campaign missions before trying any side missions. Having canine pet that kills things is certainly a plus.

Sorry never heard of it I dont think. Will look it up.

Edit: Watched a video. It tickled a memory. Might be fun. Maybe on a sale.

I enjoyed Fallen Earth, the moderate amount that I played it back in the day. It wasn't the smoothest, most polished game, but it not being a fantasy MMO setting was fun/interesting to me. That said, I'm not really looking to jump into it again right now. But yeah, free is free.

Happy N7 Day 2021!



Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale reflect on playing Mass Effect’s Shepard

They're all pretty awesome with it all. Its nice not to hear some bemoan their participation in something they didn't want to do or it was all their agent blah blah yadda yadaa. We dont like those types of course. We like people like these who seem to love their fans and the work they did.

Ya know I dont hear their character in their normal speaking voices a lot....until I tab over to another tab and let the video play THEN I hear all my crew mates talking. Its weird.